27 November 2008 Edition

NEW and innovative thinking is required in order to respond to the current global economic recession. There are a number of options available to the finance ministers in Dublin and Belfast, including an active consideration of opportunities for co-operation and joint action. Free article

DAVID McWilliams recently wrote an article in which he claimed that the statistics on inter-county club transfers within the GAA reflected a steep rise in the numbers leaving the country. He compared the figures for January of this year to August, which indicated that while very few players transferred to clubs abroad in January that this had risen dramatically by August. Free article

THIS year marks the 150th anniversary of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). One of the founders of the IRB and one of its longest serving and most dedicated members was Thomas Clarke Luby. Free article